How To Make Creamy Make-Ahead Steel-Cut Oatmeal — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn

Steel-cut oats are a wonderful option for breakfast. While they do take slightly longer to prepare than regular oats, you can save time easily by putting everything together the night before. Using the recipe below, you can prepare enough oats for several days, and they reheat easily—in fact, steel-cut oats taste even better reheated! To make this recipe, you will need 1 TB butter or olive oil, a cup of steel-cut oats, 3 cups of water, a bit of salt, and an optional cup of milk.

Key Takeaways:

the oatmeal to be prepared one night before we eat.

To make it thinner, a cup of milk can be added before reheating on the next day.

fry the oats until it smells toasty before adding water.

“Unlike gluey, sticky rolled-oat oatmeal, steel-cut oatmeal is great when reheated the next day.”